Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The United States of America has pioneered initiatives, policies, and pedagogies to diversify its higher education student bodies. In design education, for instance, students are taught to self-represent their cultures and those of their ancestors instead of representing others. Like many activities touched by neoliberal multiculturalism, however, this institutionalization of diversity does not fundamentally alter the historical negative differentiation between student and faculty, White and non-White, or male and female bodies. Following Sarah Ahmed, this autoethnographic militant design research reconceptualizes institutional diversity as a contradiction that can be felt and critically worked by a design student body through collective, not just individual, self-representation.
Source: Revista Diseña
Authors: Hien L. D. Phan, Frederick M. C. van Amstel
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414435831